It’s podcast time again everyone, so for those of you looking to make your drive to work go quicker tomorrow, I hope you’ll be tuning in. 🙂

Like most episodes, the topics of this week’s conversation vary, with thoughts on bringing my family with me on a road trip to HubSpot’s Inbound conference, to the future of Content Marketing, and many other subjects.

Here are a few of the questions you sent in that I discuss in this episode, and as always, if you’d like a question answered on the podcast don’t hesitate to shoot it to me here or leave your comment below!

What is the future for Content Marketing?

-Arnie Kuenn, Vertical Measures

Thoughts on Blogs Getting Poor Results and Why…

Hi Marcus,

Many thanks for the ebook :-). To answer your question, my biggest struggle with inbound and content marketing is that I don’t seem to be getting enough audience for my blog, presumably due to high competition.

I blog about a specific niche (.NET programming) in the broader topic of software development I thoroughly research my content before posting genuine topics, but still its been about 3-4 years since I’m blogging regularly and the hitcount has barely reached 30k!

May I request you to go through my blog-posts and give me some helpful advice. Is this topic worth blogging?

Regards,

P.

Thoughts on Marketing a Small Business when You Know Nothing About that Business

Hi Marcus,

Right now by biggest struggle with inbound and content marketing is getting started with adequate research to create content, and tools. I graduated in May and have recently been hired as Marketing Coordinator for a small business. I am currently in charge of all of the web content, advertising etc. My boss wants a new website and new online marketing practices, I attended the Inbound conference last week which is how I came across your blog & e-book. I am having trouble trying to form content for the blog, and putting together a strong and meaningful marketing campaign using blogs/newsletters and web design.

Kerry

Thoughts on Finding Balance Between Personal and Professional w/ Content Marketing

Hi, Marcus.

I really enjoyed your session at the BDN conference, well done!

Biggest struggle with Inbound & Content Marketing:

1) striking the balance in the content of our webpage to be hip and yet professional. Transitioning the personality so to speak.

2) Pulling enough involvement of our practitioners into the mix so we deliver the best information we can.

I just changed our about us page from “old style” content to a different twist on our core “about us” statements.

-Hillary

Thoughts on Becoming a HubSpot Partner and Starting a Marketing Agency

Marcus, I work in advertising sales for a large media company. My focus at the company is digital media sales and we have a lot of solutions to offer our clients, from online display to SEO and SEM to name a few. However, I’m a big fan of content and inbound marketing, and know in my heart this is the way to go. I’ve started a side gig where I created my own online community running site which helped me to land a local running store as a client, as well as some other local small businesses to help with their web design and content marketing and they have all seen great success. Even though I have a good income and benefits I’m not satisfied with my job because I know that interruption advertising isn’t efficient and content/inbound marketing works. I’m considering resigning early next year to start my own consultancy and would like to become a Hubspot partner. It would be just me in the beginning but I have contacts who I could send out work to if needed. Do you recommend becoming a Hubspot partner if I’m only a one man show? Is there anything that I need to consider that I may not be thinking about? Also I see that most Hubspot partners focus on larger clients with retention packages being from $2K to $10K per month. Obviously this is a good strategy since you don’t need a whole lot of clients at that rate. However, being a one person operation initially I thought about focusing on smaller businesses with a lower hourly rate than most agencies are charging. A few smaller clients would be enough for me to make it on my own since I won’t need to pay a staff. What are your thoughts on this?

Hi Marcus, I like the way you present your post and information through it. There will be a very useful discussion with the visitors. Great work!

September 7, 2013 at 1:06 pm

John

Hi Marcus, can u provide me with basic details of content marketing…..as I am a new user

September 8, 2013 at 1:03 am

Jasa Pembuatan Website

That’s the first list I’m on, so I don’t know what to say but thanks for including me in that great list with a group of amazing people

September 9, 2013 at 4:34 pm

Don Stanley

LOVE that you took your family with you to InBound 2013. I not sure how I didn’t realize you home-school too, but that’s a huge benefit of home-schooling … traveling with family. One of my biggest joys in speaking around the country is bringing my family along with me to events. It’s so fun and meaningful.

And don’t forget, by bringing your family along, you aren’t just changing others lives. You are helping your kids too. You are helping them to see how you can do meaningful work in a big way and became successful on all the important fronts (not just financially successful). As Dave Ramsey says, you are changing your family tree big time.

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